From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Gim Leong Chin <chingimleong@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to Override Default inode64 mount option in openSUSE 12.3?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 20:34:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130607103429.GD13113@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370597593.78403.YahooMailClassic@web192202.mail.sg3.yahoo.com>
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 05:33:13PM +0800, Gim Leong Chin wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have just set up openSUSE 12.3 on my Acer notebook with a 750 GB WD hard drive, "/" with 80 GB and "/home" with 587 GB, both are XFS.
>
> Both file systems are mounted with inode64 and no matter what I put in /etc/fstab, I am not able to remove inode64 option.
Your filesystem is smaller than 1TB, so inode numbers will never go
over 32 bits, so inode32/inode64 is irrelevant to your problem.
> Is there any method to override the inode64 default mount option?
-o inode32.
> The reason I need to get rid of it is that acroread will not
> start, and I suspect that it is due to inode64, although I cannot
> confirm with strace on acroread.
inode64 is not your problem.
> Since the two file systems are under 1 TB, what is the point of
> inode64 any way?
Because it's the metadata/data allocation policy that is used for
filesystems of less than 1TB.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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2013-06-07 9:33 How to Override Default inode64 mount option in openSUSE 12.3? Gim Leong Chin
2013-06-07 10:07 ` Jeff Liu
2013-06-07 10:34 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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